Problem with Dell Tape Drive on Solaris 11
944724Oct 18 2012 — edited Oct 26 2012Hi all,
My company purchased a DELL PowerVault LTO4-120HH Tape Drive. It is supposed to use on Solaris 11.
After I installed all the hardware and execute "mt -f /dev/rmt/0 status", the result is "/dev/rmt/0: no tape loaded or drive offline". Of course the tape is loaded.
And I tried to write something to the tape drive by executing "tar cvf /dev/rmt/0 .", the result is "tar: /dev/rmt/0: I/O error".
When I type "mt -f /dev/rmt/0 config" the result is:
"IBM ULTRIUM-HH4", "IBM ULTRIUM-HH4 ", "CFGIBMULTRIUMHH4";
CFGIBMULTRIUMHH4 = 2,0x3B,0,0x41861D,4,0x00,0x42,0x44,0x46,3,60,1080,780,13020,780,960,13980;
This means that the system can detect the drive, and when I execute "mt -f /dev/rmt/0" load, the tape drive did load for a while and then the console prompts "/dev/rmt/0 load 1 failed: I/O error".
What is the problem? When I Google I found someone that has a similar issue as mine, he said the problem is solved by modifying /kernel/drv/st.conf (should be /etc/driver/drv/st.conf), but I tried many times on changing the st.conf with no luck.
Any help would be appreciated.
Billy